Saudi Arabia's Homeless: Beyond the Wealth and Opportunity

Published January 12th, 2012 - 14:50 GMT

Saudi is a country of wealth, so it comes as a surprise that it has a growing homeless population; The Syrian regime learns that the zoom button has the magical powers to to turn hundreds of people into thousands; The art of weight loss is paved with common sense; The diverse cultural environment of Palestine.

Saudi Arabia has always been a country associated with great wealth. Yet, unbeknown to most, it has a growing level of homelessness. Most of which involve either mentally ill individuals or those who have been disowned by their family. This Saudi-based American blogger believes that something needs to be done by the community immediately to resolve this possible social epidemic.

Manipulating Crowds for the Media Lens
It seems that the zoom button on the camera can turn a relatively small crowd into a sea of thousands of supporters. This observation was witnessed by comparing footage of a rally that Bashar Al-Assad attended. According to pro-regime media, the zoomed crowd was thousands upon thousands of cheering individuals. But footage of the same crowd taken by a distant bystander tells a different story.

There is hardly a given second within the day when someone hasn't contemplated the colossal issue of caloric intake and the subsequent onslaught of weight gain. One blogger is officially fed up with the misconceptions surrounding weight gain. Here are five very reasonable things that readers should take into account about weight.
"You know, it gets on my nerves when someone sees me eating chocolate and they say: “Be careful, that makes you fat!” Well, let me break it to you: Chocolate doesn’t make you fat, in fact all food doesn’t make you fat. You know what makes you fat? Gluttony and laziness, that’s what stacks up the kilos."

People always seems to have a certain view of what life in Palestine is like. But the truth is definitely much more. Unsurprisingly, Palestine has a culturally diverse community, including a strong black Palestinian community.
"I’ve just been sitting with a Czech, a Dane, an Austrian, two Italians, a German, a Basque, two Palestinians and a Hutu refugee from Rwanda living in Denmark. Yes, even in walled-off, quarantined countries like Palestine it can get quite cosmopolitan."